The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-02-03
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

A THrrTEEv-YEAR-oLD boy Of Benton,
Cal, weighs go pounds.
IT is figured that strikes and loch-outs lost
the lanl 81, 900 go in 1856
IuMIGRANrs arrived in the United Ssa.e3
last year at the rate of !.OC0 day.
THE Queen of Gree taxes her airings in .
carriage Tor which she has aid s5,O0O
THE debt of the Union and Central Pacific
Pa lroad companies amounts to $Io1, 3D., ,6l3.
In some gardens in San Leandro, Cali
fornia raSpberrie; and strawoerries are
ripen.ng.
Ir is said that the area of winter wheat is
decrea Ing AMI area OF spring wheat in
creasing.
AN Albany (N. " toboggan chute sends
tns pass angerS down at the rate OF ninety
thres mics hour
q WAsRIsGToyfa1y has presented Yrs.
Cl+ve'and a little marmoset, a small spesies
OF mon -ey eight inches long.
JAPANESE orange trees are being intro
duc.d into California. They will give new
and excellent variety of frat.
TaE total shipments of anthracite coal for
1855 are given at about 3:,42 i0JJ tons,
against about 81, So, 00J tons in 1850.
JUAN GOMEZ, Portuguese, has lived over
ffty yea "s among the 1000 islands Off the
coast of Florida. H is lvl years old.
IL IS tJtt tudJ ~ WIZ tN'oD hoSuo
90, 90 to establish the boundary line bc-
tween ALASKA and British North America
TRE increase in the value Of property in
Alabama in the last four years amounts to
the resDe 2table sun of S3J, O,OJ0 Mu9h OF
it is due to the iron industry
A LARGE manufacture of paper bottles Is
to be entered into, patents having been
secured in all probable fields OF competition.
| 1t is an American invention.
PROFESSOR JOHN R. PaoCTos, the Ken
| tucky geologist, says there is enongh good
iron near B wiling Green, in that State, to
supply fifty furna ,es r30J years
| In the lower Brule agency in Dakota the
| Indians have a ch lrch and four cha leis.
| One hundred OF their number are members
of the chur.h, in which thay take great
pride.
DURING 1886 ten We 'sels bound to or from
Phi adephia and ownei there, with crews
! numbering Il, an nearly Si,OJ0OJJ worth
of property, were lost at sea and never heard
| from.
LAST year e ght peaks of the Alps, hitherto
| inaccessible. were ascendel by .venturous
pa, ties, but eleven person, lost their lives in
cltmbng, ten being killed aad one froz, to
| death.
ABOUT Il. 900 pounds of silk cocnonS, aver
aging 81 per pound have heen rai'el IN
Utah during the last yea. The Industry IS
still in its infancy, bat the outlook Is very
Gatterng.
THE tunnel under this river Seyern, that
| empt es int the RIstol Channel, has leen
ened for passenger ira fic II is tour and
h If m le long the g BEN: only four longer
tun els in the word, and its ventilation IS
sad to be perfect
The total output of Lake Superior iron
mines in 1885 wa e,tjmate ted at 3, j62, ,0l5 tons
of ore against :, i!7, i31 tons the year pre-
,s,+ F,.1, tt,a, Nn,,i, ,,r
of the first mines in lc5l up to the end of
! 1856 was 81, 10, i02 tons.
HERDzR drove 1900 sheep into CORA,
at Tie Siding, Wyoming Territory. and af-
ter banking the tire in an ALA enS cabin,
went to sleep A ark dew into the straw
of the sheds, and while ths he der slept the
corral and all the sheep were destroyed by